Yes, ICU are jammed with all kinds of patients for all kinds of reasons. But in this case this was just the COVID surges, most of which were avoidable.
If health professionals get COVID there is no service. Zilch.
And two can play the personal analogy game. I play in a garage league with a guy whose kid was a resident at the hospital. The kid’s first weeks of the first rotation featured a stream of phone calls to families to come in and see their loved one for the last time. Helluva training camp.